[Public-list] warning of service interruption

[John Birch]

George you have done a fantastic job - please advise when you get it sorted 
out - none the less - a fantastic job. We are all in your debt.
Best to you & Gale
John

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "George Dinwiddie" <gdinwiddie at alberg30.org>
To: "Alberg 30 Public List -- open to all" <public-list at alberg30.org>
Sent: Monday, November 27, 2006 7:11 PM
Subject: [Public-list] warning of service interruption


> The company that rents space and bandwidth to me for the server that
> hosts this list has decided to exit the low-end of their market.  I've
> done considerable research, and was unable to find local server
> colocation at a comparable price.  I decided, instead, to go back to a
> shared server setup with someone else maintaining the computer.
>
> I've been working on this transition for several months, and I've been
> painfully reminded why I was tempted to maintain my own server.  The
> ISPs notion of customer service is not the same as mine, nor is it
> consistent with the image I had formed from the recommendation I
> received for this ISP.  As a result, it looks extremely doubtful that
> the mailing lists configs (including user subscriptions) will be
> transferred to the new server before I have to decommission the old one
> in the next few days.  If I had access to the new mailserver, I could
> have accomplished this by now.  Instead I have to plead with someone
> else to do it.
>
> As a result, the list will likely cease to function for a some period of
> time.  I'm still hopeful I can get the user subscriptions transferred
> without requiring everyone to re-subscribe.  I'll post a message when I
> have some news.
>
>  - George
>
> -- 
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>   When I remember bygone days                         George Dinwiddie
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>
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